Metadata Extraction Tool

Changes
Version: 3.0.
 Metadata Extraction Tool
Changes
Version: 3.0.

Table of Contents

Introduction.................................................................................................................3
Version 3.0...................................................................................................................3
File Support...........................................................................................................3
File Support...........................................................................................................3
Major Changes......................................................................................................3
Major Changes......................................................................................................3
 Introduction
This document covers the changes to the Metadata Extraction Tool.

 Version 3.0
Version 3.0 is the initial release to the Open Source community.

File Support
Version 3.0 of the Metadata Extraction Tool changes the way the files are identified
by the tool. In earlier versions, the Metadata Extractor tool relied heavily on
extensions. The new version relies on magic numbers where possible. Notable
exceptions to this rule are:
• MP3 files are still detected by their extension as using the magic number
(0xFF at the start of the file) risks a large number of false positives.
• Microsoft Office and Works documents are identified based on their
extension, plus a check to ensure that they are valid OLE files. This is due to
difficulties in being able to consistently locate metadata that identifies the type
of the document. While this information is available, it varies in its position.
• There have been major changes to the XMLAdapter. The new version will
extract the information from the XML and DOCTYPE declarations, while
previous versions essentially copied the source XML file.

Major Changes
Version 3.0 includes the following major changes:
• Additional JavaDocs, especially in the interfaces where development is
expected.
• New nz.govt.natlib.samples package containing usage samples.
• Update and addition of new documentation.
• Changes to the XMLAdapter to extract the XML version and encoding types
and extract information from the DOCTYPE header.
• Creation of ANT build scripts to automate the build process.
• Modification of the default build to include all adapters.